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Readers of this blog know the high Holy Days with my kids every Summer is the journey to San Diego for Comic-Con International; it’s the world’s largest and most fun pop culture event and one I’d like to see in Anaheim someday after the expansion of the Convention Center (something supported by OC’s Julio…

The Anaheim Convention Center plays host to the WonderCon pop culture convention this weekend and as many as 140,000 people are expected to attend this more comic-book focused event compared with a more Hollywood driven San Diego ComicCon that attracts 150,000 people a day in July. When WonderCon first came to Anaheim in 2012, as…

That sound you hear in Anaheim is the Building/Trade unions cheering that any legal challenges to Anaheim’s Convention Center expansion project are done. The Coalition of Anaheim Taxpayers for Economic Responsibility (CATER), a “good government” group has dropped its legal challenge to the financing plans for the expansion of Anaheim’s Convention Center. The Inland Oversight Committee…

Much happening in Anaheim over the weekend, coinciding with a family visit, made it impossible to get to this post any sooner, but some big doings nonetheless. Namely Pettibone fallout, CATER loses in Court, and the Angels break off negotiations with Anaheim. First off, the Pettibone Caper as Tom Tait’s hand-picked council candidate withdrew from…

TheLiberalOC has obtained a letter from the Los Angeles/Orange Counties Building and Construction Trades Council to Henry Vandermeir of the Democratic Party of Orange County that unless Greg Diamond, a lawyer and candidate for District Attorney, isn’t removed from Diamond’s Vice Chair of the DPOC North leadership post, the union will immediately withdraw all support of…

Last night’s Anaheim City Council meeting, in which the council approved an expansion of the Anaheim Convention Center, was noteworthy for a demonstrated by Mayor Tom Tait that he actually seems to know he has a gavel and can use it even when there’s an obvious situation to do so — like anytime William Denis…

The more I read other political blogs praising the conservative bonafides of Anaheim Mayor Tom Tait and his principled stance against corporate cronyism, the more I question the ability of people to research his record and be honest about it. From OC Political: “It would seem to behoove good local Republican politicians to know what…